Parniczky Quartet: Bartok electrified

Formed in the year 2016. Europe based four-piece Parniczky Quartet having forged a very unique signature sound that originates in jazz, contemporary classical and Hungarian folk music. The sound of the quartet is simultaneously complex and emotional. Andras Parniczky with the Nigun (Parniczky’s other group) bandmate Peter Bede and Istvan Balo has performed more than 300 gigs around the world, including venues like the New York Guggenheim Museum, Brussels Bravo Art Festival, Athens Technopolis Jazz Festival, Klezmor Festival Vienna. Erno Hock (Dresch Quartet, The Qualitons) joins them on bass as one of the most respected representatives of his instrument not only in Hungary but also in Europe.

Their first album the Bartók Electrified published by BMC in 2018. This repertoire was performed with the collaboration of Frank Möbus and Daniel Erdmann at the MÜPA. In 2019 the band will be touring with Carlos Bica (P) and Dejan Terzic (G).

Bela Bartok was an outstanding musician and composer. He was fascinated not just by folk music, but jazz and musical improvisation. Bartok himself was very interested in improvisation as a form of musical style. A testimony to this interest was Eight Improvisation on Hungarian Peasant Songs. He had also composed a musical piece to Benny Goodman, who was the most successful jazz musician of the Swing Era. Common affinity to these genres Parniczky composed a repertoire based on Bartok’s pieces like the Mikrokozmosz, the Easy Pieces for Piano the 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs or the Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano. Consequently Bartok's musical genius appears while the band maintains Parniczky’s and his band’s own recognizable sound.
More information: http://www.brusszel.balassiintezet.hu/en/bartok-en/